You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
Quotations
Silence
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
-Thomas Merton
"No Man Is an Island"
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
The fruit of silence is prayer.
-Mother Teresa
The silence between us talks itself.
-Anonymous
Purpose of words is to create silence.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I've never realized that I would learn, understand, and realize a lot of things from being silent
-Anonymous
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara
You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
